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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs

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